Scary Movie

You almost always know something about a movie before you see it. Is it a comedy, an adventure, a psychological thriller, science fiction, etc.

Many years ago I was in Tel Aviv for the day (I was living in Jerusalem at the time). I had been under a lot of pressure and was feeling the stress. I passed a little cinema house. I looked at the photos on display. The movie was called “All That Jazz”. “Hmmmm” thought I “A light-hearted musical, all singing and dancing. Just what I need to lift my spirits”

The film was the story of someone who was as exhausted as I was and as driven as I was. And he has a heart attack and dies.

So like everyone else, I’m watching the bombing of Libya and like everyone else I don’t know how this drama is going to end. But my gut feeling is that it wont end well. And we can’t change the channel or walk out of the movie house.

And I really hope I’m wrong!

-Dry Bones- Israel’s Political Comic Strip Since 1973

Uncomfortable Truth (1991)

I drew today’s Golden Oldie twenty years ago this week, on March 21, 1991.

For me, the years have passed quickly. I suspect that for Jonathan that’s not true. No one else in the history of the United States has ever received a life sentence for passing classified information to an ally – only Jonathan Pollard. The median sentence for this offense is two to four years. Even agents who have committed far more serious offenses on behalf of hostile nations have not received such a harsh sentence.

If our community’s unforgivable lack of response to Pollard’s outrageous treatment was an uncomfortable truth back then, in 1991 …how much more despicable now, an unbelievable twenty years later, in 2011??!

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida . ~ Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have – if only for

self-defense. ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas

are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do

Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of

little children. ~ Alex Haley

Grandmother – a wonderful mother with lots of

practice. ~Author Unknown

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on

the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new

grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

It’s amazing how grandparents seem so young once you

become one. ~Author Unknown

If your baby is ‘beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses,

sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the

time,’ you’re the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string – handy to have

around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their

grandchildren. ~Author Unknown

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I’d like to say

that grandparents are God’s gifts to children. And if they can

but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they

can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby

Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie

When Insults Had Class

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.